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From Prehistory to Old Age

This is a timelineof the Prehistory and History. When does History begin?

Check this video that introduces human prehistory.

PALAEOLITHIC AGE

In
the caves of Atapuerca(Burgos) we can see the fossils of the first human
beings that lived in Europe one million years ago.

In the Palaeolithic
Agehuman beings survived by eating the animals that they hunted or
fished and the fruits and vegetables that they gathered. When there wasn´t
enough food they migrated to another area, they were nomads.

People lived in tribes, groups of about thirty members. They lived
outdoors or in caves or huts they built with sticks and animal skins.

In
the Neolithic Age human beings cultivated plants and domesticated animals, to
take care of them they became sedentary. They lived in villages.

They created polished stone tools more elaborated than Palaeolithic tools. They also learnt to make textiles on simple looms and ceramic
containers for cooking and storing food.If you want to know more...

THE METAL AGES

The
Metal Ages began around 6,000 years ago, when the human beings learnt how to
make objects from metal. Cooper was the first metal they used, then bronze and
finally iron.

The cities choose leaders to organise and people specialise even more than in
Neolithic: Warriors defended the city, farmers worked the land merchants
bought and sold products. Wheel and plough were invented.

THE FIRST ARTISTS

The first
artists appeared in the Palaeolithic Age. They painted animals on the
walls and ceilings of the caves. They mixed minerals with animal fat to
make different colors. If you click on HERE you´ll see one of the most well known caves in the world: Lascaux (France).

In the year
218 B.C. the Romans landed in Emporion, defeated the Carthaginians and started
the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. But this conquest took them a long time, it finished in 19 B.C. under
the Emperor Augustus.

To organise Hispania they divided the territory into provinces, with a governor to keep the order and collect
taxes. Roman law was enforced and Latin became the official language.
Christianism was the official religion after the year 380 A.D. Society
was the same as in the rest of the empire, with free men that could participate
in the government and own property and slaves that didn´t have any
rights.